Cotton-square destroyer.



. C. H. ROBINSON.

COTTQN SQUARE DESTROYER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE IO 1914.

Patented Apr. 25, 1916.

lllfllRM CARL H. ROBINSON, OF SNOW HILL, ALABAMA.

COTTON-SQUARE DESTROYER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 25, 19116.

Application filed June 10, 1914:. Serial No. 844,284.

To` all whom t may concern Be it known that I, CARL H. ROBINSON,

. a citizen of the United States, residing at Snow Hill, in the county of Wilcox, State of Alabama, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cotton-Square De-l stroyers; and l do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and' exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a cotton square destroyer.

An object of the invention is to provide a device which will readily blow the squares from beneath the rows of plants in a cotton field.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device that will at the same time destroy the said cotton squares so that any boll weevils which may be in the. squares will at the same time be destroyed.

With these and other objects in view, this invention resides in the novel features of construction, formation, combination and arrangement of parts as herein set forth and subsequently claimed.

Referring to the drawing: Figure 1 is a side elevation of my device. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation. Fig. 3 is a front elevation thereof. Fig. l is a sectional view of the blower. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the device. Fig. 6 is a detail of the gasolene tank.

Referring to the drawing by reference characters wherein like parts are indicated by like characters throughout the several views: my device comprises a wooden beam 1 which is supported on a wheel 2, which wheel is connected to the said beam by brackets 3. A pair of handles 4C are bolted, as at 5, to the rear end of the beam so that the device may be operated. On the shaft 6 of the wheel 2 is fixedly mounted a gear wheel 7, the purpose of which will appear later. A blower 8 is mounted on the beam 1 and comprises a fan 9, a casing 10 and a tube 11, which tube is swiveled on a neck 12 of the casing 10 so that it may be moved relative to said casing. A gear casing 13 is secured to the side of the casing 10 and has a pair of gears 14 rotatably mounted therein, one of said gears being mounted on the shaft 15 of the fan 9 and the other of said gears meshing with the aforementioned gear and mounted on a shaft 16. 011 this shaft and on the outside of the casing 13 is an additional gear 17 over which a chain 18 passes, which chain also passes over the gear 7.

When the vehicle is advanced the rotation of the wheel 2 through the operating mechanism described causes the fan 9 to be rotated and thus air is forcibly ejected from the tube 11. In operation this tube extends downwardly from the beam 1 in an inclined direction, as shown in Fig. 3 in full lines and is supported by a chain 19 suspended from a rod 20, which rod is secured to the upper face of the beam between the edges thereof so that a portion of the said rod bears against the edge of the beam and is thus supported in a horizontal position. By virtue of the connection between the tube 11 and the neck 12 the said tube may be swung to either one side or to the other of the said beam when the device is in operation, or it may be swung into a vertical position when the device is inoperative.

Pivotally supported in bearings 21 on the handles t is a gasolene tank 22 which has a pressure pump 23 secured thereto and connected thereto by a pipe 24, in which pipe is a needle valve 25. A pipe 26 is secured to the said tank and has a valve 27 therein, and this pipe 26 extends downwardly and has connected thereto at its lower end a horizontal pipe 28 on which is mounted a plurality of burners 29 of the type adapted to burn gasolene. The said burners have a plurality of holes 30 therein through which the flame caused by the burning of the gasolene is forcibly ejected by the pressure created in the tank 27 by the pump 23.

In operation the tube 11 is supported in its downwardly inclined position and the device is pushed between two rows of plants so that the end of the tube 11 will be adjacent the lower portions of one of the rows. During the advance of the vehicle by virtue of the connection between the fan 9 and the drive wheel 2 air is forcibly ejected from the tube 11 and blows all of the squares and other matter which have collected beneath" the plants in the row which is being operated upon to positions on the other side of said row and in the ditch between that row and the next adjacent row. Before the vehicle is pushed up the ditch in which the squares and other mattei' have been vblown the gasolene burners 29 are lighted and the tube 1l swung tothe opposite-side of the,

beam l so as to blow the squares from beneath the row of plants, whichvhave not already been operated upon. During the advance of the vehicle to perform this oper` ation the Haines holes 30 in the burners 29 burn the squares which have been previously blown into the ditch in which the vehicle-is'being pushedland during this burning operation boll v will at the same time burn the squares and Copies of this patent may be 'obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Washington, D. GL

insects which have been previously blown from beneath the plants, and I have further provided a device which will accomplish the above results without in any way coming in Contact with the plants or causing the plants to be subjected to heat.

I do not wish lto be limited to the partucular construction of my invention shown, for it is obvious that numerous changes may which escape from; thev ,porting the same,

- said be made within the scope of the invention as defined by the claim.

What is claimed is Ina cotton square destroyer, the combinationwith a beam and a wheel for supof a blower mounted on bea-m, an angular tube swivelly connected to said blower in such manner that it may be swung to extend downwardly and outwardly from either side of the beam, means for supporting the tube in said positions, consisting of a rod extending transversely of the beam and a flexible member secured to the tube and adapted to be secured to either end of the rod, and a chain operatively connected to the wheel and to the fan in said blower to rotate the fan upon the advance of the wheel to cause a current of air to pass outwardly through the said tube.

In testimony whereof, I aHix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

CARL H. ROBINSON.

Commissioner of Patents, 

